Originally Posted by
QRC3288
I hear your point about recency, but I've just never seen it and fly it fairly regularly. Also have never once seen a report here. It would be a real shixtshow. There are only 6 seats! And how do you decide who to bump? J at a minimum has 35 seats or so on the smallest config. You assume you can bump or convince SOMEONE. I would be just totally furious if CX screwed that up. Everyone pays 5-10k for the seat and they bump one of us?
BA "F" is fine, but not really F compared to the other major carriers. And cash prices reflect that, cheaper than CX. And there are minimum 8 BA seats, up to what 14?
Never witnessed or heard of F overbook on CX. And with only 6 seats, it would lead to a serious chance of downgrade.
It is frequent to get pax being upgraded with miles at the airport, or even free opup. This is how CX protects the exclusivity of its F.
BA is a different case as most planes have 14 seats, so the law of large numbers starts to apply.
BTW, I find the BA window F suite on A380 excellent (not so on 747 or even 777), food more original than CX and wine/service not worse. Dinner is served more rapidly as it can take forever to prepare dinner on CX given the FA ratio.